Ivanov, Dmitry Trofimovich

He was born on February 22, 1915 in the village of Yurasov Khutor, now Sevsky District, Bryansk Region, in a family of an employee. Russian. Member of the CPSU since 1943. In 1929 he graduated from the seven-year plan in the city of Sevsk . Moved to Moscow. He graduated from the rabfak in 1935. He worked at the factory.

In the Red Army in 1937-1940. After demobilization, he was the foreman at the Respirator factory in the city of Orekhovo-Zuevo, Moscow Region.

In June 1941, Ivanov was drafted into the army and sent to study at the Podolsk artillery school.

On October 6, 1941, as part of a hastily formed infantry division of artillery school cadets, cadet Ivanov arrived at the Ilyinsky line near the city of Maloyaroslavets . On October 10-11, fierce, bloody battles began. The Nazis were eager for Moscow. The cadets stood to death. Ivanov destroyed the advancing infantry from a light machine gun.

On October 12, the enemy, through the positions of the fallen 3rd infantry school battalion, broke into the rear of the cadets. The front fascist tank was walking with a red banner on the tower. He was the first to be hit, and Ivanov cut out the crawled out tankers from a machine gun. Then, taking a position at the wrecked tank, he defused 2 discs on Hitler’s cars, destroying up to 20 soldiers.

In total, 10 fascist tanks and 2 armored cars were shot down in this battle. Cadets, combing the forest, captured 17 Nazis. Neither this nor the next 3 days the Nazis were able to break through the Warsaw highway to Moscow.

In 1942-1944, D. T. Ivanov fought on the Western, Bryansk, 1st Belorussian fronts . Having received the rank of junior lieutenant, he commanded an artillery platoon. In 1943, Ivanov was appointed commander of the battery, and in 1944 he commanded the anti-tank fighter division.

During these fiery years he participated in the liberation of the cities of Bryansk , Zhlobin , Kovel , Helm . Boosted the Western Bug River .

In the summer of 1944, the troops of the 1st Belorussian Front, breaking through the Nazi fortified defense in Volhynia, rushed to the Vistula River , on the west bank of which the Nazis created a new powerful frontier of defense .

On the night of July 29, 1944, the commander of the 306th separate fighter-anti-tank division, Captain Ivanov, skillfully organized the transfer of batteries to the left bank of the Vistula River, and then the solid anti-tank defense of the bridgehead near the city of Pulawy (Poland). The gunners under his command participated in repelling 5 counterattacks of the infantry and tanks of the enemy, holding the captured bridgehead.

On August 1, 1944, the enemy abandoned about 25 tanks and 10 self-propelled guns in the position of a entrenched division. Gunners, led by Captain Ivanov, opened fire direct fire. 8 tanks and 4 self-propelled guns were shot down. At the critical moment of the battle, the Nazi tanks crushed 2 guns at the position of one of the platoons. Ivanov arrived there and personally knocked out 2 tanks with grenades, after which he organized the defense from the reserves.

As a result of a solid defense, the Pulawski bridgehead was deterred. In January 1945, the Soviet offensive against Oder began with him.

By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of September 25, 1944, Captain Dmitry Trofimovich Ivanov was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal (exemplary performance of command missions of the command on the front of the battle against the German invaders) No. 3099).

D.T. Ivanov commanded the division in the Wisla-Oder operation , during which he participated in battles for the cities of Radom , Lodz . In April 1945, he was seriously wounded in Germany in the area of ​​the town of Guben during the liquidation of the Nazi-encircled Frankfurt-Guben group. Until the end of 1945 he was treated in a hospital.

Since 1947, Major D.T. Ivanov has been in reserve. He lived in the city of Orekhovo-Zuevo . He graduated from the Chemical and Mechanical College. He worked as an engineer at the Respirator factory. Entered in the Enterprise Book of Honor. He died on March 16, 1970. He was buried in the city of Orekhovo-Zuevo .

The name of the Hero is given to the pioneer camp of the Respirator factory and the street in the city of Orekhovo-Zuevo.

He was awarded the Order of Lenin, orders of the Red Banner, Alexander Nevsky, Red Star, and medals.

• Ivanov, Dmitry Trofimovich (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ".
• Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Brief Biographical Dictionary / Prev. ed. collegium I. N. Shkadov . - M .: Military Publishing , 1987.- T. 1 / Abaev - Lyubichev /. - 911 p. - 100,000 copies. - ISBN comp., Reg. RCP No. 87-95382.